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I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.
...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.